Incidence of Rose Bengal Positive Agglutination Test Among Blood Donors in Sulaimani Blood Bank17-24

Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , Pages 111-115

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Sherko A. Omer 1

1 College of Medicine, University of Sulaimani

DOI logo 10.17656/jzs.10129

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Abstract

This study was achieved to determine Brucella antibodies using Rose Bengal agglutination test in serum of healthy persons attending a blood bank in Sulaimani city in Iraqi Kurdistan region, each person's serum was tested directly without dilution and with 1:80 dilution, the overall positive agglutination results were observed in 29 out of 548 cases (5.29%). Twenty seven of them gave negative reaction with 1:80 dilution, we recommend that if only Rose Bengal test is used to confirm diagnosis of brucellosis, titration of patients serum is useful for better evaluation.

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